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Based on Robert Heilbroner's New York Public Library/Oxford University Press Lectures given in May 1994, this work focuses on the question of humankind's future. The first lecture treats depictions of the future that dominated all cvilizations in the 17th century. The second lecture deals with the early 19th and 20th centuries - an age of buoyant secular expectation which provided material improvement for all human kind. The third lecture shows that pessimism about the future has returned and that there is little turning to religion for solace.
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`A worldly philosopher's provocative broad-brush perspective on what the morrow could bring.' Kirkus Reviews
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About the Author: Robert Heilbroner's many books include The Worldly Philosophers, An Inquiryinto the Human Prospect, and Twenty-First Century Capitalism. He was recently selected the first Scholar of the Year by the New York Council of the Humanities.
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- PublisherOxford University Press Inc
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0195090748
- ISBN 13 9780195090741
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